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Bed space is tight at OHSU this flu season, but relief is in the works

Portland Business Journal December 17, 2025
OHSU President Shereef Elnahal, M.D., highlights ongoing hospital capacity challenges and how to remain safe and healthy this winter. He says, “We routinely have to board patients in hallways and triage them as they’re waiting in the waiting room so we can find a bed for them. We continue to see record patient visits every single year. Every year is higher than the year before.”

OHSU ER 'bursting at the seams' with no quick remedy in sight

KGW-TV December 17, 2025
OHSU President Shereef Elnahal, M.D., highlights ongoing hospital capacity challenges and how to remain safe and healthy this winter. He says, “We routinely have to board patients in hallways and triage them as they’re waiting in the waiting room so we can find a bed for them. We continue to see record patient visits every single year. Every year is higher than the year before.”

Is There a Link Between Estrogen Therapy and Weight?

Medscape December 16, 2025
In a Medscape story about whether hormone replacement therapy may affect body weight, Jonathan Purnell, M.D., says, “During the menopausal transition, affecting approximately 20% to 30% of women by current estimates, both an increase in weight and accelerated central distribution can occur. The cause or causes of this remain unknown but are obviously linked to the dramatic drop in estrogen.”

Knight family’s $2 billion gift tops annual philanthropy list — by a lot

OregonLive December 16, 2025
Phil and Penny Knight’s $2 billion gift to the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute as by itself amounting to nearly 40% of the biggest charitable donations among all philanthropists in all of 2025. It is the largest single donation ever made to a U.S. university, college or academic health center.

Knight Donation Tops List of 2025's Biggest Gifts

The Chronicle of Philanthropy December 16, 2025
The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlights Phil and Penny Knight’s $2 billion gift to the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute as by itself amounting to nearly 40% of the biggest charitable donations among all philanthropists in all of 2025. It is the largest single donation ever made to a U.S. university, college or academic health center.

How health insurers weigh whether to cover certain drugs

Marketplace.org December 15, 2025
Marketplace interviews Hyunjee Kim, Ph.D., about insurance companies deciding whether to cover certain medication or devices. She says, “You always have to consider what other players do. If my competitor does cover it, I better cover it. Otherwise, my member will switch.”
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